Practice Quiz Chapter 04

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. Durkheim's theory of suicide focused on levels of suicide in ________.

a) North America correct incorrect

b) Europe correct incorrect

c) Asia correct incorrect

d) South America correct incorrect

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. The ________ approach suggests that crime is geographically patterned.

a) Chicago School correct incorrect

b) bio-criminology correct incorrect

c) environmental psychology correct incorrect

d) human genetics correct incorrect

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. According to Thrasher (1927), ________ are more common in neighbourhoods where conventional social controls are weak or absent.

a) high suicide rates correct incorrect

b) youth with low IQ scores correct incorrect

c) youth gangs correct incorrect

d) gender acts of violence correct incorrect

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. According to Merton's strain/anomie theory, the innovator is one who ________.

a) believes in both culturally defined goals and legitimate means of goal attainment correct incorrect

b) believes in neither culturally defined goals nor legitimate means of goal attainment correct incorrect

c) does not believe in culturally defined goals but does believe in legitimate means of goal attainment correct incorrect

d) believes in culturally defined goals but does not believe in legitimate means of goal attainment correct incorrect

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. Albert Cohen's theory of delinquency focused on ________.

a) youth subcultures correct incorrect

b) female delinquency correct incorrect

c) crimes, such as drug dealing correct incorrect

d) prostitution correct incorrect

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. According to Hirschi's control theory, the first two social bonds referred to as "inner controls" are ________.

a) commitments and attachments correct incorrect

b) involvements and strains correct incorrect

c) beliefs and attitudes correct incorrect

d) strains and attachments correct incorrect

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. Edwin Sutherland's ________ theory suggests that criminal behaviour is learned behaviour.

a) labelling correct incorrect

b) differential association correct incorrect

c) behaviourism correct incorrect

d) Chicago School correct incorrect

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. The origins of labelling theory can be traced back to ________.

a) the classical school of criminology correct incorrect

b) bio-criminology correct incorrect

c) symbolic interactionism correct incorrect

d) psychopathology correct incorrect

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. Critical criminology can be traced back to the work of ________.

a) Sigmund Freud correct incorrect

b) Karl Marx correct incorrect

c) Thomas Hobbes correct incorrect

d) Plato correct incorrect

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. ________ is a key issue that is normally addressed by feminist criminologists.

a) Minor property crime correct incorrect

b) Fraud correct incorrect

c) Victimology correct incorrect

d) Bullying correct incorrect

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. Whyte's research on crime in "slum" neighbourhoods in the USA in the 1940s challenged the main assumptions of ________ theory.

a) control correct incorrect

b) social learning correct incorrect

c) social disorganization correct incorrect

d) strain correct incorrect

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. Hirschi's control theory identifies four different social bonds. ________ is not one of these bonds.

a) beliefs correct incorrect

b) impulses correct incorrect

c) commitments correct incorrect

d) involvements correct incorrect

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. One of the practical implications of differential association theory to reduce crime would be to ________.

a) teach youth self-control correct incorrect

b) to have governments raise the minimum wage correct incorrect

c) have more private schools correct incorrect

d) none of the above correct incorrect

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. A ________ views social life as continuous process of interpreting meanings of our own actions and those of others.

a) Marxist correct incorrect

b) functionalist correct incorrect

c) neo-classical correct incorrect

d) symbolic interactionist correct incorrect

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. ________ views capitalism as not being characterized by a consensus of shared values.

a) Critical criminology correct incorrect

b) Control theory correct incorrect

c) Anomie theory correct incorrect

d) Social disorganization theory correct incorrect